We need your feedback on this one!  Android Central is reporting that some of their readers that pre-ordered the new hotness that is the EVO 3D have been receiving them in the mail!  If you pre-ordered yours, can you confirm for us that you are indeed set to receive or have gotten yours?  We are really excited to see this handset and want to get your opinion on it!  Let us know in the comments.

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TechFaith, a specialized mobile company focusing on Enterprise smartphone offerings has announced via a press release that they will be launching six new Android powered handsets on June 23rd.   If you like watch the carrier roll out some new Android phones, watch the webcast live on cnmo.com at 14:30 PM Beijing time.

Under its TecFace brand, the Company is a leading developer of specialized mobile phones for differentiated market segments, including the rapidly growing Smartphone market targeting Enterprise users and Operators through its TecFace brand; Outdoor and Sports enthusiasts through its Jungle brand; and the Teen market through licensed brands. – press release

Archos recently announced a launch event in Paris to unveil their new Gen 9 tablets. If you don’t know, Archos has been making great “low budget” Android tablets/ media devices for a while now but none have featured the Android Market or any Google Apps. But, if you check out the invitation above, there are two distinct images with the little bee (Honeycomb) and the Android guy holding a shopping bag (Android Market). So,  is Archos tipping their hand at some new features for these devices? Let’s hope!

We’re expecting Archos to keep the low prices they have been known for, yet satisfy the larger crowds with more “Google”.  The event is on June 23rd at 6:30 pm at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and we’ll be keeping an eye on things. Do you own an Archos device with Android?  What would you change about it?

Source: Archos Lounge

Without knowing all the details, it stuns me that record labels in America continue to be very short sighted about the fact that the vast majority of consumers get their music digitally from the internet.  Perhaps they are still smarting over the Napster debacle from the 90′s, but if an internet giant like Google came to me and said, “Hey, let’s launch a killer service that all of our users will have access to and will get you guys paid, but it will be in a different way than you are used to.”, I would sit up and listen and most likely act.  Not so with the current major recording companies, as Engadget is reporting that someone has leaked that Google Music will be announced today at I/O, but as a cloud storage and streaming service rather than a subscription based offering.  And the labels wonder why the continue to hemorrhage money. The article states that talks with major labels broke down, because they were making some pretty strong demands, ones that Google found to be unsustainable.  The specifics were not available as of the writing of this article, but if we take the past history of how labels have demanded exorbitant fees from services like Pandora and Slacker, one can imagine what they tried to hit Google with.

Someone needs to buy a copy of “Long-Tail Economics” for these record labels, and point at the iTunes music store.  I honestly do not know anyone who is buying cd’s anymore.  And honestly, I don’t know many people who are even buying music, they simply go find it somewhere on the net, record labels be damned.  There is a cliche saying for sure, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”  You will never stop piracy, but you can present something that gives an alternative that would make piracy less than desirable, and I am not talking lawsuits of single mom’s either.  My gut feeling is that Google offered a plan to labels that would have made them a large amount of money over the long haul.  My continued gut feeling is telling me that the record labels balked at those ideas because it did not make them large amounts of money right away, and that they did not like putting Google in a power position with their product.  Either way, I am sure that details will come out as time passes.

The good news is that it looks like we Android users are going to get the capability to store up to 20,000 tracks in the cloud, and stream said tracks to our Android devices.  It is being said that Xoom owners are going to get first crack at the service, with the rest of us getting access in the coming weeks.

This service will still be a cool thing to have, but I am having heartache right now at what this service could have been.  I am hoping that somehow, someway Google and the record labels will go back to the table and sort it out.

We will have more news when this gets officially announced.